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Comment on Changing keyboard layouts in Fluxbox by neilwards

neilwards — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:22:51 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I will try your syntax. Strangely, I haven’t had any trouble lately. Perhaps an update fixed the problem (or it could be -like you suggested- that this kind of keyboard switching only fails when certain programs are running).
Amusingly, the Arch forum thread that you pointed me to is a thread that I started.

Thanks again.

Comment on Changing keyboard layouts in Fluxbox by tamihania

tamihania — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:35:58 +0000

Hm, I'm not on fluxbox right now but all your files look OK at the first glance. Although I prefer syntax: Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru(phonetic)" and would uncomment or simply delete: Option "XkbVariant" ",phonetic" I believe that random crashes are related to lack of support for unicode (needed for Cyrillic) of some applications - see this thread: Arch forum Sorry for not being of better help.

Comment on Changing keyboard layouts in Fluxbox by neilwards

neilwards — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:54:42 +0000

I have noticed something strange with this. When I switch between English and Russian phonetic, sometimes the entire X display goes black. In order to get it back, I have to reboot. It’s too bad, I really like this method of switching keyboards.
I am using Archlinux 2.6.29 i686 and Fluxbox (obviously).
-relevant Xorg.conf-

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard0″
Driver “keyboard”
Option “CoreKeyboard”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbOptions” “compose:lwin,grp:rwin”
Option “XkbLayout” “us,ru”
Option “XkbVariant” “,phonetic”
EndSection

-relevant .fluxbox/menu-
[submenu] (Keyboards)
[exec] (US) {setxkbmap us}
[exec] (RU) {setxkbmap ru -variant phonetic}
[end]

It’s not consistent, sometimes it crashes my box, sometimes it doesn’t.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Comment on Blogging from Vim? :o) by code933k

code933k — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:50:11 +0000

Damn tami! I really don’t liked Blogs until now. They looked like personal notes from people who doesn’t knew anything. But now:

1-) There’s a vim plug-in for it!!
2-) Now there is more diffusion for serious discussions and I can push forward my time to write about politics and technology.
3-) WordPress seems like a not so rookie site to start with.

Thanks to you for writing the article and thanks to Pedro for relieving the time a script could have taken from me. Fuhu fuhu !! No slow web interfaces, no crappy desktop editors making complicated the already simple: Why one should have more than two editors for the same purpose?

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